My "STUDIO" and other stuff

The other day I finished some cute $1/yard flannel and I planned to make an old fashioned quilt top.  Then I thought it would be better as pj's. I used two coordinating fabrics one for the top the other for the bottom and then switched for hems and facings and added a little bit of ribbon accent for transition areas in the hems. It really turned out cute. Simplicity pattern - not sure of the number but it was one of the new ones, plus size and shortened for petite, but only needed to go about an inch.

I also made a cami using stretch lace for the hems and around the top as well as the straps. For the straps I used 2 pieces of lace stitched together.  No pattern I used a book that took one measurement and talked you through creating the whole thing. I really was a little unsure of how it would turn out, but I love it. For the front V neck I sewed several strips of the lace strips together.

Now I'm looking at my stash and wondering what I can do with lots of little pieces of shear fabrics. Originally I thought about scarfs, but that wasn't working. So I pieced all of the fabric together and cut everything out. The fabric was all over the place. I would have done better if I interfaced before cutting out - live and learn. Still learning after 35+ years.

Today I'm sitting at an open house just waiting for someone to come by - really nice house.

Just getting started

How many of us sewers are out there? I doesn't seem like many. I live in Wyoming and it's all rural, but I would have thought in the larger areas there would be more. It's hard to find someone to talk about something that I really enjoy - sewing. I'm a petite plus size and over 50 :) with what seems to be an ever changing shape. Plus size petite is difficult because hardly no patterns fit. I have started working on some fitting books from sew books that I bought through Amazon as second hand sewing design and pattern making books. Would love to take a pattern making or pattern fitting class, but there doesn't seem to be anything on line or in the rocky mountain area.

I'm hoping to find some people to talk with about these problems. Gain some more confidence and quit trying to make the perfect anything.

Let me know if you are out there and I'll keep up dating something and as much as I can.